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General Mach Discussion / Re: Travel diestance does not match command

« on: June 03, 2011, 07:01:07 AM »

Thanks.  I had looked in just about every section of the config except ports and pins.  I thought there was no way it would be there.

Thanks again.  Will be trying it later today.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Travel diestance does not match command

« on: June 02, 2011, 11:52:40 PM »

I think the solution is the diameter / radius mode.  That is the toggle I have been looking for but have not found.  Please. please, please tell me where it is. 

I was running the wizard that is built in to mach3.  The turning wizard is pretty simple.  Enter the starting x value and the desired x finish value.  Guess i could mess that up but don't think I did. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Travel diestance does not match command

« on: June 02, 2011, 09:53:12 PM »

Gosh I thought this would be an easy answer.  Guess I'll have to go to plan b and just double the number of steps per inch and not pay any attention to what the motor set up is like.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Travel diestance does not match command

« on: June 02, 2011, 06:01:37 PM »

Btw, Mach shows that it is at .60 when it is finished.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My drill wont drill!

« on: June 02, 2011, 05:23:20 PM »

will visual mill send out a "peck" operation? 

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General Mach Discussion / Travel diestance does not match command

« on: June 02, 2011, 05:18:57 PM »

I am working on a small converted lathe and am turning only wood till I get this figure out.  I break fewer tools that way!

What I have done:
Went into the motor configuration and set my step rate to match the actual travel.  When, I jog my x axis 1 inch, it moves 1 inch (measured with micrometer) and the display on mach shows that my x has moved one inch.

I have run the turning wizard to just turn the OD of a part from .70 to .60 (love the wizards btw.)  I get everything lined up and zeroed.  I run the gcode that the wizard has generatred and then measure the part when finished.  It actually is moving 2x the distance it is supposed to.  It measures .50 when I finished my run instead of the .60 that it was supposed to measure.

The Z axis has the same stepper motor and same pitch lead screw and the controller is set the same and it does move the proper distance when running the program.

This is probably a simple fix but I have been reading and looking for 2 days and have not solved it yet.  Can someone lead me in the correct direction?

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Share Your GCode / Re: Chucks Deer V carve engraving

« on: June 02, 2011, 04:53:51 PM »

Thanks for the deer carvings.  I'll give one a whirl tonight.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: May 18, 2011, 05:13:29 PM »

The more I use and find out about Mach3, the more amazed I am that it sells for such a reasonable price.  Hope that Microsoft never buys it.  The price would go to un-affordable for the hobbiest if that were to happen. 

Be happy and deal with it's few limitations.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: April 08, 2011, 10:37:06 AM »

I won't be the first kid on my block to give it a try. 

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: April 08, 2011, 10:26:08 AM »

Typically every other OS the Microsoft comes out with is junk.  Win 3.1 was good. 95 junk. 98 good, ME was junk. XP was good, Vista was junk, so far Windows 7 has been pretty good.  Expect Windows 8 to be junk.